Abstract
This chapter focuses on the role of shaded walkways and greenery in defining what is meant by tropicality. Theories of ideas concerning tropicality in urban design and city spaces are a recent attempt towards defining elements of urbanism characterised by the elements of a tropical region. It is put forth that both shaded walkways and greenery have a key role in constituting cultural tropes in defining a regional version of universal ideas and frameworks of tropicality. The two tropes are the role of the shaded walkway and the greenery. The absence of urbanist histories and past models underscores the difficulties and dilemmas in outlining locally derived positions including conceptualising the urbanist and spatial organisation of new cities.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
References
Al-Ahmadi, A. R. (2003). Tamadun rumpun budaya Melayu. Kuala Lumpur: Percetakan Watan.
Alexander, C. (1964). Notes on the synthesis of form. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Antrop, M. (2000). Where are the Geneii Loci? Landscape our home. In B. Pedroli (Ed.), Essay on the culture of the European landscape as a task (p. 29). Stuttgart/Zeist: Freies Geistesleben/Indigo.
Aziz, M. A., & Osman, M. T. (2007). Landscape architecture in Malaysia in search of identity. Kuala Lumpur: IFLA.
Bakar, J. A. (2002). A design guide of public parks in Malaysia. Skudai: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.
Barber, N. (1971). The war of the running dogs: Malaya 1948–1960. London: Phoenix.
Buder, S. (1990). Visionaries and planners: The garden city movement and the modern community. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Bunnell, T. (2004). Malaysia, modernity and the multimedia super corridor: A critical geography of intelligent landscapes. London: RoutledgeCurzon.
Calthorpe, P. (2011). Urbanism in the age of climate change. Washington, DC: Island Press, Centre for Resource Economics.
Feener, R. M., Daly, P., & Reid, A. (2011). Mapping the acehnese past. Leiden: KITLV Press, Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies.
Fei, C. V. (1998). Encyclopedia of Malaysian architecture. Kuala Lumpur: Archipelago Press.
Forty, A. (2000). Words and buildings, a vocabulary of modern architecture (pp. 142–288). New York: Thames and Hudson.
Hall, P., & Ward, C. (1998). Sociable cities: The legacy of Ebenezer Howard (pp. 200–217). Chichester: University of Michigan, Wiley.
Hans-Dieter, E., & Korff, R. (2000). Southeast Asian urbanism: The meaning and power of social space. Hamburg: LIT Verlag Munster.
Helmreich, A. (2002). English garden and national identity: The competing styles of garden design. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Home, R. K. (1990). Town planning and garden cities in the British colonial empire 1910–1940. Planning Perspectives, 5, 23–37.
Ismawi, Z. (1992). The evolution and morphology of Kuala Lumpur: A case for the conservation of a colonial urban form. Edinburgh Architecture Research, 19, 99–122.
Ismawi, Z. (1997, June). Hubungan Manusia dengan Alam Sekitar. Planning Malaysia, Issue No. 4. Kuala Lumpur: Department of Town and Country Planning Peninsular Malaysia.
Katz, P. (1994). The new urbanism: Toward architecture of community. New York: McGraw-Hill.
Meacham, B. J. (1998). Regaining paradise, englishness and the early city movement (pp. 88–111). New Haven/London: Yale University Press.
Miksic, J. N., & Goh, G. Y. (2016). Ancient Southeast Asia. London: Routledge World Archeology.
Miller, M. (2016). Garden cities and suburbs: At home and abroad. Journal of Planning History, 1(1), 6–28.
Nasir, A. H. (1990). Kota-kota Melayu. Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.
Nor Zalina, H., & Ismail, S. (2008, December 5–7). Role and fate of Padang in Malaysian historical cities. Proceedings of the 5th Great Asian Street Symposium. National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Ooi, G. L. (1990). Town councils in Singapore: Self-determination for public housing estates (Occasional Paper No. 4). Singapore: Institute of Policy Studies.
Reid, A. (2005). An Indonesian frontier: Acehnese and other histories of Sumatra. Singapore: Asia Research Institute/National University of Singapore/Singapore University Press.
Ross, S. (1998). What gardens mean. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Said, I. (2001). Cultural-ethnic landscape of terrace housing community in Peninsular Malaysia. Journal Teknologi B, 35(2001), 41–53.
Salleh, I. H., Rashid, M. S. A., & Sakip, S. R. M. (2016). Malay garden concept from the traditional Malay landscape. Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, 222(2016), 548–556.
Shuhana, S., & Ahmad Bashri, S. (2002). The role of streets in influencing the sense of place of Malaysian towns and cities. Paper presented at Great Asian Street Symposium: Public space. National University of Singapore, Singapore.
Steutevill, R. (2004). The new urbanism: An alternative to modern, automobile-oriented planning and development. New Urban News. Retrieved from http://www.newurbannews.com/
Tahir, O., & Kaboudarahangi, M. (2014). The challenges, potentials, and experts’ opinions on developing a Malaysian garden identity. Journal of Pertanika, 22, 19–33. Universiti Putra Malaysia.
Wang, Y. W., & Heath, T. (2008). Constructions of national identity: A tale of twin capital building in early post war Taiwan. Taiwan in Comparative Perspective, 2, 21–46.
Yeang, K. (1985). The tropical Verandah city. Petaling Jaya: Longman Publishers.
Yeang, K. (1987). Tropical urban regionalism: Building in a South East Asian city. Singapore: Mimar Publications.
Zakaria, A. Z., Salleh, I. H., & Rashid, M. S. A. (2013). Landscape furniture present in the ancient Malay garden according to old manuscripts and their effects on the formation of Malay garden design concept model in Malaysia. Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences, 91(2013), 28–35.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2018 The Author(s)
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Harun, N.Z., Abdullah, A. (2018). Tropical Urbanism: Greenery and Walkways in Mediating Identities. In: Jahn Kassim, S., Mohd Nawawi, N., Ibrahim, M. (eds) Modernity, Nation and Urban-Architectural Form. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66131-5_6
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66131-5_6
Published:
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-66130-8
Online ISBN: 978-3-319-66131-5
eBook Packages: Social SciencesSocial Sciences (R0)